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Guidance for local authorities on visual inspection and limited surveys for radioactive contaminated land.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store fly-tipped waste, waste from trash screens and public litter bins without an environmental permit.
How the Environment Agency monitors the waste site at Appspond Lane, Hertfordshire.
How the Environment Agency monitors the landfill site at Chapel Farm, Swindon.
Advice on how to classify and code wastes from some of the methods used to treat hazardous waste.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can use a backup flare to burn biogas from exempt anaerobic digestion plants.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store waste incapacitant sprays without an environmental permit.
Explaination for operators in England and Wales how the Mining Waste Directive will be implemented.
This document provides the performance standards for open path ambient air quality monitoring systems.
Performance standard for stack emission monitoring, fugitive emissions and landfill gas borehole emissions.
This document contains the performance standards for automatic isokinetic samplers used in the measurement of emissions from industrial chimney stacks, flues and ducts.
The T18 exemption allows you to treat waste by using flocculants to remove water so that clay or water-based paints can be recovered.
The T19 exemption allows small-scale physical and chemical treatment of waste edible oils and fat to produce fuel.
The T20 exemption allows you to treat certain waste at water treatment works to reduce the volume for transport, or to make it easier to handle for waste recovery.
The T29 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings before disposing of them to land.
The T30 exemption allows you to recover silver from waste produced in connection with printing or photography.
The T33 exemption allows you to filter central heating oil from disused tanks so that it can be reused.
The U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
The U7 exemption allows you to use effluent from water and waste water treatment plants to clean highway gravel beds where high-quality water is not needed.
The U14 exemption allows you to mix ash back into the soil to return some of the nutrients from the burnt crops and vegetation.
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